Physicist
US Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Keith A. Wear received the B.A. degree in applied physics from the University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics, with a Ph.D. minor in electrical engineering, from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. He is currently a Research Physicist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
Dr. Wear is a Fellow of AIUM, IEEE, ASA, and AIMBE. He received the 2019 AIUM Joseph H. Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award. He has served as the chair of the AIUM Technical Standards Committee (2014-2016), AIUM Bioeffects Committee (2021-2023), AIUM Basic Science and Instrumentation Community (2004-2006 and 2014-2016), and AIUM Therapeutic Ultrasound Community (2013-2015). He served as Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. Ultrason., Ferro., and Freq. Contl. (IEEE-TUFFC) (2019-2021). He has served as Associate Editor of IEEE-TUFFC (2002-2021), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2012-present), and Ultrasonic Imaging (2013-present). He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Beijing, China. He was the General Program Chair of the 2017 IEEE IUS, Washington, DC, USA. He is Chair of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 333 on Magnetic Resonance Guided Focused Ultrasound Quality Assurance. He served as an invited instructor in four short courses at the IEEE IUS (2007, 2010, 2012, 2013). He served on the IEEE UFFC Administrative Committee (2016-2018) and Ultrasonics Committee (2015-2019). His research interests include hydrophone measurement methodology, high intensity therapeutic ultrasound, photoacoustics, and quantitative ultrasound.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
3:00 PM – 3:45 PM